step 1: enable ublock origin in incognito mode in options step 2: right click video, open in incognito
For me, it also works to stop using Chrome and use Firefox instead (so far.)
YouTube Begins Blocking Users Who Use Adblock
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#22I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. I get tremendous value out of YouTube in both professional and personal ways. I have a daughter who watches it often. Suppressing ads while supporting the service my family enjoys regularly seems like a no-brainer to me. And I never have to worry about them circumventing my ad blocker.
I agree with all of that, and I sincerely was planning to become a paid subscriber. But I have some irrational resentment around being a statistic validating their increased pressure campaign. I don’t like feeling forced to spend the money! Which is weird because I get significantly more value from it than any streaming service.
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#23You can always choose not to use Youtube if you hate Ads so much.
I can and I will. Just don't make me run software I don't want to on hardware I own.
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#24This marks the moment Google officially decided it didn’t know how to innovate any longer, and that it’s time to grab all they can to increase the bottom line. Most technology companies follow this same cycle. When they’re in the innovation/disruption phase, there are less rules, they just focus on giving people the best experience. When they start stagnating, suddenly every cent matters. The irony is that the profil…
I’ve been blocking ads for a long time but I’m not going to cry about mistreatment when somebody shuts the back door that I’ve been using to get free lunch.
The ads are annoying, I might just use nebula more.
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#25I was using Brave on my iPad the other day and got a notice about this. It didn't seem to affect functionality though. Perhaps they will clamp down in the future, and this is just a warning.
On my Desktop, Brave is counting down the last 3 videos I'm allowed to watch with ads blocked.
I hope Brave can give me the option to make Google think I'm watching the ad by downloading the ad but somehow not showing it to me.
Or, failing that, show it but auto-mute the audio during the ad (I spent lots of time on Youtube listening to my playlist).
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#26I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. I get tremendous value out of YouTube in both professional and personal ways. I have a daughter who watches it often. Suppressing ads while supporting the service my family enjoys regularly seems like a no-brainer to me. And I never have to worry about them circumventing my ad blocker.
I've posted this a few times recently, but I used to pay for youtube premium, but it started showing me ads while using chromecast. The third time it happened I cancelled and went back to using ublock. I don't use the chromecast much because the ads are unbearable but I see exactly 0 ads ever on my pc. In short, I block ads because not only is it free, it also actually works. My guess is as soon as(if?) they manage to totally stop ad blockers, they will pull a cable company move and start showing ads to paying users as well. They'll say it's to help creators or something or course.
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#27It's not the ads it's the tracking.
Paying for Youtube premium doesn't stop them spying on you.
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#28I don't understand how adblock on a service like youtube work, without cooperation of youtube itself. I get it that you could easily blank the output when there is an add, and/or auto-close an add after the countdown, but how do you convince the service to continue streaming before the minimal advertisement time has past ?
I don't know how it is done for certain, but with absolute control of the client you could send any information back to Youtube that you wanted. So if all Youtube was requesting was that the minimal amount of time of ads be watched before playing the video you just tell them that you have. I'm sure it is getting far more complicated than this, but I suspect this is the basic idea of this back and forth arms race of a…
If YouTube wants full control over the ads experience, they will have to splice the ad into the video stream itself, and block seeking requests until:
1. The entirety of the ad portion of the video stream has been successfully sent to the client
2. A length of time equivalent to the ad duration has passed
A sufficiently advanced ad blocker would be able to block the ad, but you would still be forced to sit through several seconds of nothing before continuing with the video.
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#29I feel like I'm in the minority that has zero problem paying for an ad-free experience. I get tremendous value out of YouTube in both professional and personal ways. I have a daughter who watches it often. Suppressing ads while supporting the service my family enjoys regularly seems like a no-brainer to me. And I never have to worry about them circumventing my ad blocker.
I'm probably also in the minority, but I think Youtube having a near monopoly in this space is bad for consumers and would prefer to see some alternatives. If by merely executing control over my own hardware to see only what I want is enough to actively harm them then so be it. I also have been subscribed to NebulaTV and Curiosity Stream for years.
I think the nature of the service lends itself to monopoly. The part that is bad for consumers is the profit/growth requirements that put consumers and producers second. The USPS is a prime example of a non profit-driven operation that leaves customers satisfied and operates self-sufficiently (ignoring the relatively recent laws enacted to kneecap the operation by requiring onerous pension funding requirements).
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#30> When you block YouTube ads, you violate YouTube’s Terms of Service.
I wish these corporate goons would drop their moronic drivel about a Terms of Service that means nothing and nobody reads and just write in the following style:
"When you block YouTube ads, we don't like it and will take technological steps to retaliate, which are within our right."